First Council of Nicaea Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === The Nicene Creed === The orthodox bishops won approval of every one of their proposals regarding the creed. After being in session for an entire month, the Council promulgated on 19 June the [[Nicene Creed#Original Nicene Creed of 325|original Nicene Creed]]. This profession of faith was adopted by all the bishops "but two from [[Ancient Libya|Libya]] who had been closely associated with Arius from the beginning".<ref name="Carroll 1987 12">{{harvnb|Carroll|1987|p=12}}</ref> No explicit historical record of their dissent actually exists; the signatures of these bishops are simply absent from the creed. The sessions continued to deal with minor matters until 25 August.<ref name="The First Council of Nicaea"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page